Water Pollution

Reading:
Miller 11th Edition: 110-113; Chapter 8
Miller 7th Edition: Chapter 9

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Goals:

• Explain the importance of water and the hydrologic cycle to ecosystems, human health and economic pursuit.
• Assess problems of water quality and propose solutions to address water pollution.
• Explain cultural eutrophication and dead zones.
• Compare eutrophic and oligotrophic bodies of water.
• Identify point and non-point source pollution.
• Explain how wastewater is treated.
• Describe major types of marine ecosystems.
• Assess human impacts on marine environments.

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Laws:
Clean Water Act
Federal Water Pollution Control Act
Ocean Dumping Ban Act
Oil Spill Prevention Act

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Assignments:

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Extras:
Coral Catch Disease from Sewage
GBR at Risk from Pesticides
Water Cycle - Unit 1; Chapter 2; Lesson 7
Lake Eutrophication - Unit 4; Chapter 16; Lesson 78

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